I'm so glad they decided to make a musical from the 1997 animated movie. I love the song Once Upon a December.

" He makes no vain sacrifice who fights for a cause. All here are ready to die so that our brothers may live as free men. Liberty... sweet liberty... come fight with those who defend you." ----Enjolras.

Yeah... That's why, as nice as it is when musicals try to be somewhat more accurate to history and/or the source material than the films they're based on (e.g. the stage versions of Disney's Hunchback), it needs to be done carefully and without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Well, given that Anastasia was never reunited with her grandmother, never escaped Russia for France and never survived in the first place -- not having Rasputin brought back to life as a villain with a bat familiar and a reliquary of evil powers granted to him by Satan himself doesn't seem to be the biggest nod towards historical accuracy. But then I suppose the Romanovs being taken out back and shot to death would make for a very short and in-poor-taste musical.